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Accepted Paper:
The reinventing of Folia dos Reis -¨revelry of the kings in Rio de Janeiro slum
Gilberto Conti
(Charles University)
The Folia dos Reis is a catholic celebration that during 500 years in Brazil kept reinventing and changing. The work is about that celebration inside one slun in Rio e Janeiro, how after years kepts some characteristics and some reinvented.
Paper long abstract:
Those groups of Folia dos Reis lives in a very poor areas where has civil wars and high criminality, the choice for music and art can help a lot for young to not be exposed in the criminality, Those people are keeping their devotion to the holy spirit and keeping the culture alive. But the music got influenced by samba schools, the clothes and the musical instruments kept changing.